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From: HUMMINGRK at aol.com <HUMMINGRK>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:26:15 EDT
With permission, I am posting a reader's response entry written by my son, Colin, for his sixth grade language arts class. He seems to share Big Grandma's sense of humor....
written by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated by James Stevenson. Some of them are short, and some are very long. A poem I thought was very funny was called
"Sardines."
Their daily lives are bland,
and if they land they're canned.
I like this poem because I think this applies to my life sometimes. I like this book because there are many comparisons to my life in it.
A Pizza the Size of the Sun was a fun book to read because there are a lot of humorous poems in it. I think the pictures by James Stevenson really add to the poems because they aren't realistic drawings and don't take away from what you imagined it would look like. The pictures are in black and white, but they seem like color because they are vivid. I enjoyed reading this book because it was comical.
I think that not much could make this book better. The author could add some more poems, and the pictures could be in color; but even if the pictures were in color, it would be that bad, glossy paper that's sticky and no fun to read. The paper the publisher used was kind of bumpy, and I think the texture was a good addition to the book.
I think that it must be hard to think of all the rhyming words used in the book. Jack Prelutsky uses some unusual words like "prone" and "stone." I like poems that rhyme because they sound better, and it's more fun to me to write poems that rhyme.
Some of my favorite poems are the strangest poems. I think one of my favorites was called "We are Doddies." It's long, but it starts out:
We are Doddies, smooth as eggs,
We've got bodies on our legs.
We've got heads with tiny brains,
We play leap frog when it rains.
But my favorite line in the poem is:
We are Doddies, often wet,
We don't know what we forget.
I like that line because many times I forget--and I don't even know what I forgot. I think this is my favorite poem. I wonder if Jack Prelutsky forgets as much as I do. I think he probably laughs a lot because his poems are so funny.
Many of the other Jack Prelutsky books are not as long as A Pizza the Size of the Sun, but I like all the poems in those books, too. Also, a lot of the other books of his have color illustrations. Some other books by him that I've read are: Monday's Troll and The Dragons Are Singing Tonight.
All these things tie together for why I like A Pizza the Size of the Sun: humor, rhyming, interesting textured pages, abstract illustration, and a front cover that tastes good, too (just kidding). I hope that someday I can write poetry as well as Jack Prelutsky.>>
What else can I say?
Lee Sullivan Hill hummingrk at aol.com
Received on Wed 19 Apr 2000 04:26:15 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:26:15 EDT
With permission, I am posting a reader's response entry written by my son, Colin, for his sixth grade language arts class. He seems to share Big Grandma's sense of humor....
written by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated by James Stevenson. Some of them are short, and some are very long. A poem I thought was very funny was called
"Sardines."
Their daily lives are bland,
and if they land they're canned.
I like this poem because I think this applies to my life sometimes. I like this book because there are many comparisons to my life in it.
A Pizza the Size of the Sun was a fun book to read because there are a lot of humorous poems in it. I think the pictures by James Stevenson really add to the poems because they aren't realistic drawings and don't take away from what you imagined it would look like. The pictures are in black and white, but they seem like color because they are vivid. I enjoyed reading this book because it was comical.
I think that not much could make this book better. The author could add some more poems, and the pictures could be in color; but even if the pictures were in color, it would be that bad, glossy paper that's sticky and no fun to read. The paper the publisher used was kind of bumpy, and I think the texture was a good addition to the book.
I think that it must be hard to think of all the rhyming words used in the book. Jack Prelutsky uses some unusual words like "prone" and "stone." I like poems that rhyme because they sound better, and it's more fun to me to write poems that rhyme.
Some of my favorite poems are the strangest poems. I think one of my favorites was called "We are Doddies." It's long, but it starts out:
We are Doddies, smooth as eggs,
We've got bodies on our legs.
We've got heads with tiny brains,
We play leap frog when it rains.
But my favorite line in the poem is:
We are Doddies, often wet,
We don't know what we forget.
I like that line because many times I forget--and I don't even know what I forgot. I think this is my favorite poem. I wonder if Jack Prelutsky forgets as much as I do. I think he probably laughs a lot because his poems are so funny.
Many of the other Jack Prelutsky books are not as long as A Pizza the Size of the Sun, but I like all the poems in those books, too. Also, a lot of the other books of his have color illustrations. Some other books by him that I've read are: Monday's Troll and The Dragons Are Singing Tonight.
All these things tie together for why I like A Pizza the Size of the Sun: humor, rhyming, interesting textured pages, abstract illustration, and a front cover that tastes good, too (just kidding). I hope that someday I can write poetry as well as Jack Prelutsky.>>
What else can I say?
Lee Sullivan Hill hummingrk at aol.com
Received on Wed 19 Apr 2000 04:26:15 PM CDT
